Sharon Bialek, the single mother who who accused Herman Cain of making an inappropriate sexual advance toward her in 1997, expressed sympathy for the Republican candidate’s wife on Tuesday, asking, “What is his wife going through?”

“You know what I want to say to Herman is? If not for yourself, okay, to come forward and admit this — what is his wife going through? You know, that’s who I feel for the most in this whole thing,” Bialek said on CNN’s “American Morning.”

“I have to believe she’s going through her own personal turmoil. And if not for himself, for the women that he’s done this to, just for Gloria, that’s his wife, too, he should [come forward],” she added.

Bialek said she was convinced by her teenage son to speak out about her encounter with Cain.

“The night before that I was about to do this, he was with his dad, and I said Nick, what do you think I should do? … He said mom — he’s 13 – he said, ‘You have to do the right thing. I think you need to tell on him,’” Bialek said. “That confirmed it for me. If my son is saying it, I want to be a role model for him and for other kids growing up and set the example that this is not appropriate behavior.”

After Bialek’s bombshell press conference on Monday, Cain appeared on late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” lashing out against “this whole thing about woman No. 4” and describing his wife’s reaction to the news.

“The things that woman [Bialek] described, that doesn’t even sound like you!” the former CEO of Godfather’s Pizza quoted his wife as saying.

Cain, who said he had watched Bialak’s press conference on Monday, added, “When it was all over with, I said, ‘Well, I know what we got to do because there’s not an ounce of truth in all of these accusations’.”

“I’m in it to win it, and I’m not going to be discouraged,” he said.

On Monday, the Cain campaign dismissed the charges made against him as “more false accusations.” “All allegations of harassment against Mr. Cain are completely false. Mr. Cain has never harassed anyone,” his campaign said in a statement.

Cain is expected to address the latest controversy in a press conference in Arizona on Tuesday. On the morning of that presser, Bialek was insistent that it was “not too late” for the presidential hopeful to do the right thing.

“It’s not too late,” she said on ABC’s “Good Morning America”. “He can step forward and just end this. Just end it. I don’t want to be here. I don’t think anyone wants to. Just end it. Let’s move forward. But unfortunately, I don’t think that’s what’s going to happen. End it by saying, I did these things. I did some inappropriate things.”

Asked whether Cain is “fit to be president,” Bialek answered, “Not until he tells the truth.”

On one of the many TV interviews Bialek participated in on Tuesday, it was revealed that the single mom once lived in the same building as Obama chief campaign adviser David Axelrod.

“You lived at 505 North Lakeshore Drive apartment, right? That’s the same building, it happens to be the same building that David Axelrod lives in. Do you know David Axelrod? Ever had any interaction with him at all?” Bialek was asked on Fox News.

She answered, “I saw him in the gym. You know, everybody nods to each other. It’s a friendly building. But I never had any interaction with him.”

Seizing Bialek’s troubled financial past to question her motivation, the Friends of Herman Cain attacked the single mom, saying Cain’s “opponents have now convinced a woman with a long history of severe financial difficulties, including personal bankruptcy, to falsely accuse the Republican front-runner of events occurring over a decade ago for which there is no record, nor even a complaint filed.”

Bialek on Tuesday dismissed such claims that her decision to come forward was financially motivated.

On CNN, she said she wanted to “set the record straight” about her financial past, and explained that she dealt with bankruptcy after the death of her mother when she had to help her father pay for medial bills and a custody battle.

“I was not paid to come forward, nor was I promised any employment. Nothing at all. I’m just doing this because it’s the right thing to do,” Bialek also said on ABC. “I called [attorney] Gloria [Allred]. I said I need some help. I want to go forward with my story, but I can’t do it alone.”

Pressed on whether she could afford Allred’s services, Bialek — who revealed on Monday that she was a single mother raising a 13-year-old son and currently unemployed — answered, “No, I can’t. And I told her that upfront. So we’re doing this pro bono.”

Allred, sitting next to Bialek on the TV set, chimed in, “Meaning, for the public: without charge.”